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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
The characters of the genus, as I have observed them, may be 
defined thus : — 
CANELLA,ilfmTay, Linn. Syst.-, P. Brown. Jam. 215 ; DC. Prodr. 
i. 563; Endl. Gen. 5457. Winterana, Linn. Gen. 598. — 
Sepala 3, suborbiculata, concava, coriacea, margine ciliata, 
suberecta, persistentia, sestivatione imbricata. Petala 5, uni- 
seriata, sepalis fere duplo longiora, oblonga, concava, crasso- 
carnosa, erectiuscula, quarum 2 paullo angustiora et interiora, 
decidua, gestivatione imbricata. Stamina in tubum cylindri- 
cum petalis gequilongum monadelpha, tubo carnosulo e disco 
parvo scutelliformi hypogyno producto, apice ultra antheras 
breviter extenso, ibidem tenuiori et pellucido-punctato, mar- 
gine fere integro aut subcrenulato ; antherce extrorsfe, e locellis 
20 subsequalibus dorso oinnino adnatis, linearibus, compresso- 
angustis, parallelis, sejunctis, rima media longitudinali 2- 
valvatim dehiscentibus : pollen reticulatum. Ovarium su- 
perum, cylindricum, vel conico-oblongum, glabrum, 1-locu- 
lare ; ovula 4 reniforraia, e medio ad placentas 2 oppositas 
longitudinales parietales per paria collateralia horizontaliter 
appensa, funiculo brevi in sinu affixa. Stylus crassus, ovario 
continuus et gequilongus, os tubi attingens. Stigma trun- 
catum, obsolete bilobum. Bacca ovata, carnosa, calyce im- 
mutato suffulta, stylo breviter apiculata, 1-locularis. Semina 
4, in mucilaginem condita, rotuudato-ovata, subreniformia, 
hilo minusculo cavo sub apicem notata ; tunica externa [aril- 
lus) dura, ci'ystallino-crustacea, Igevis, nitida, sub lente confer- 
tim grauulata, atra ; tunica intermedia {testa arillina) externa 
conformis, sub apicem apiculata, et hinc ad illam paullo super 
hilum affixa, inembranacea, latere ventrali ab apice usque ad 
medium raphide filiformi percursa ; integurnentum internum 
crassiusculum, obscurior, chulaza majuscula ventrali notatum. 
Embryo in verticem albuminis copiosi carnosi et eo 4-plo 
brevior versus faciem dorsalem reconditus, hinc valde ex- 
centricus, teres, curvatus; radiculu extremitate crassiori hilo 
proxima, cotgledonibus semiteretibus chalaza aversis aequilonga. 
Arbores Antillance et Columbiana sempervirentes summo ramosa ; 
folia alterna obovata vel oblonga, coriacea, juniora pellucido- 
punctata, glabra, integerrima, superne nitida, petiolata, exsti- 
pulata : inflorescentia terminalis, corymbosa, fioribus subparvis, 
albido-violaceis. 
1. Canella alba, Murray, Linn. Syst. iv.443 ; P. Brown, Jam. 275. 
tab. 27. fig. 3; Catesby, Carol, ii. tab. 50; Swartz, Linn. 
Trans, i. 96. tab. 8; DC. Prodr. i. 563. Canella Winterana, 
Gaertn. i. 377. tab. 77. Wintei’ana canella, Linn. Sp. 636 ; 
